The End of the Beginning – a short international update on the Stockholm healthcare revolution – summarises the healthcare advances made in Stockholm during the 1990s, describing the reforming process and its good results, but also the new difficulties that have cropped up along the way.
Year: 2003
Why We Need Independent Think Tanks
Why independent think tanks can be bolder..
Frozen Taps
More evidence from the United Kingdom that state ownership of water utilities is costly and inefficient.
Will Toronto suffer a decline like Winnipeg’s?
A prominent national columnist fingers rent control as a driver of Winnipeg’s deteriorating downtown.
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
What the Voucher Victory Means
The Cleveland voucher decision allows the last big civil rights battle- to give poor minority kids good schools – to begin in earnest
2002: Year in Review
An assessment of the policy highs and lows in Manitoba during 2002.
Manitoba Health Spending Still Highest in Canada (FC010)
In 2002 Manitoba again tops the charts for the most expensive healthcare system. But where are the results?
Lost without Marx
Green ideology fills the political function once performed by socialist economics: It justifies attacks on the private sector.
Cheap Enough for Government Work
Government agencies would perform better if required to compete for jobs with private-sector providers of comparable services
Soak the Rich Backfires Again
Another case where taxing the rich hurt the economy